Posted on 12/21/2023 12:05:52 PM PST by Timber Rattler
“I don’t know why you are still trying to push this fake story...”
“Fake to those who trust the WESTERN MEDIA.”
The only ones pushing the story are the Kremlin controlled media outlets.
Life must really suck for YOU then.
It may at times - but I don’t have to worry about being stupid, unlike my opponents on this thread.
I think you should find people who want to send money there, and send your own money.
“but I don’t have to worry about being stupid”
You’re living proof that ignorance is bliss.
At least you don’t deny that The Duke has you pegged.
Many social media posts carrying the claim cite a Nov. 21 story from The Islander, an online publication, that reported Zelenskyy “is now ensnared in a scandal involving the alleged purchase of two luxury yachts, ‘Lucky Me’ and ‘My Legacy,’ worth a combined $75 million.”
https://apnews.com/article/fact-check-zelenskyy-luxury-yachts-75-million-067680385163
Nah, the Duke was talking about YOU there slick.
"Whatever you say, bounces off me and sticks to you!"
What are you, 8 years old? Grow up, kid.
Here is a post I made right when the story was first planted here and had just started.
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4199638/posts?page=19#19
Russia does attempt to influence with elections all over the world - as does the USA - but drawing the line between legitimate use of soft power, interference and straight up tampering isn’t easy. it’s inconsequential if they barely make a difference.
Of course, sticking thousands of unused ballot sheets in an election held at gunpoint in occupied Southern Zaporizhzhia while nobody in the northern half of the Oblast had a vote is so far away on the wrong side of the line, with most of the election observers on a Kremlin payroll, only idiots call that ballot legit.
The bigger question isn’t which side Russia backed in the USA, it’s how did they do it and how successful were they.
The sheer fact America can’t stop arguing about it proves that Russia definitely did try to influence the population. You’ve got half the country convinced that Russia was backing Trump and the other half convinced Russia backed Clinton/Biden.
If your system wasn’t so vulnerable to tampering and y’all weren’t so easily triggered by conspiracy theories, it wouldn’t be possible for Russia to pull the stunt in either direction.
We’re not much better. Russia can’t really tamper with our elections in the UK to steer the outcome as all party funding is intensely scrutinized and all campaigning has to abide by strict rules, but they sure did fund the unofficial Brexit campaign.
It is important for me who did Putin want to win in those elections for my purposes. I would like to know what the pro-Russia contingent here believes it was.
Oh yeah he is way out there.
How about this?
“Gerasimov noted that the core of the Ukrainian force used in the counteroffensive consisted of brigades trained and armed by Western nations. The grouping that was supposed to reach the Azov Sea initially included 50 battalions armed with over 230 tanks and more than 1,000 infantry fighting vehicles, half of them Western-made, he reported. The force was later boosted to 80 battalions, according to the general…..”
https://theduran.locals.com/index.php
The Ukies lost, get used to it.
That was a weird puzzler relevant to nothing.
The thread is “How pro-Russian ‘yacht’ propaganda influenced US debate over Ukraine aid”
I think you were the very first Russia promoter to plant the fake story on freerepublic.
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4199638/posts
Follow your own advice.
Grow up, kid.
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